How Is The Jathedar Of Sri Akaal Takhat Sahib Chosen?

[Mehtab Singh]

I am curious about the procedure. Is there some sort of Gurmata passed, or is there a minimum qualification required? Who chooses the Jathedar? What credentials are kept in mind when choosing? Who has the authority to choose? Etc. etc.

Please share if you are aware

Thanks

[StarStriker]

I heard nowadays, its given to the person who has longest tongue and best knee pads......gone r the days when the jathedari is given to a genuine carer and independent thinking person, who's intention is to further the sikh nation, n serve guru hargobind sahib (miri piri da malik). To think that the current jathedar is sitting in the same glorious building as those incredible shastar of puratan shaheeds, which go on display every 6pm.

Sad sad times.

[11qwert11]

I am curious about the procedure. Is there some sort of Gurmata passed, or is there a minimum qualification required? Who chooses the Jathedar? What credentials are kept in mind when choosing? Who has the authority to choose? Etc. etc.

Please share if you are aware

Thanks

same I too would like an answer or the ideal answer ?

[Mehtab Singh]

Such is the state of Guru Sahib's qaum? If this was a spicy topic we would have been on the 4th page by now! But I ask a genuine question and for 21 hours no one has an answer?

Guru Sahib jee! Baksh lavo te bachaa lavo!

[jkvlondon]

Such is the state of Guru Sahib's qaum? If this was a spicy topic we would have been on the 4th page by now! But I ask a genuine question and for 21 hours no one has an answer?

Guru Sahib jee! Baksh lavo te bachaa lavo!

maybe Veer ji , it's a sad indication that question has most ordinary Sikhs stymied ...we can see how they were selected in the past by merit, kamai and character. but these days the qualities are non-exsistent no zameer, no daleri, little kamai, just a puppet yes man. i feel likr crying thinking on it...how far we have fallen

[kharkusingh1996]

Whoever will be the next jathedar will be a puppet of Badal and Indian govt. That is for sure until we Sikh can do something about it and shift things around. Until then.......

[Mehtab Singh]

Bhenji you see how shameful this looks? We don't even know who appoints the man supposed to be the "POPE" of the Khalsa Panth, we don't know what merits/credentials he is supposed to have in order to get there.

I wish atleast one person knew, so that we could brainstorm and extract the root cause of where we may have been wrong all along. We could prepare a list of what we need to work on as a Panth. But alas.....

Now my next question, since none of us have any clue how this procedure works, who is to blame this time? Ok let me sugarcoat it, who do we blame for our own ignorance about this crucial procedure?

[jkvlondon]

Bhenji you see how shameful this looks? We don't even know who appoints the man supposed to be the "POPE" of the Khalsa Panth, we don't know what merits/credentials he is supposed to have in order to get there.

I wish atleast one person knew, so that we could brainstorm and extract the root cause of where we may have been wrong all along. We could prepare a list of what we need to work on as a Panth. But alas.....

Now my next question, since none of us have any clue how this procedure works, who is to blame this time? Ok let me sugarcoat it, who do we blame for our own ignorance about this crucial procedure?

The SPGC has changed a lot of things in the three decades since they allowed the enemy into the heart of our kaum's affairs; we have lost touch with historical precedents and the true operational might of the khalsa because we blindly trusted them to do right. that is our fault, we as a kaum never thought 'hold on these scum are alive though thousands died in 84, they allowed the govt to destroy and loot the reference library how??' obviously an administration who is baying for all sikhs blood should be uniformly against all sikhs in that situation not sparing the handful ...those are the collaborators and do not deserve to live since they abandoned their duty to the kaum at its hour of need.

[Mehtab Singh]

Please forgive me if you guys are not very familiar with Urdu. Listen to what Mr. Hassan Nisar is saying here about Islamic history. Does it ring a bell? Try to see it from a Sikh perspective and ask yourself: Have we fallen into the same trap?

If you don't understand Urdu please carry on in some other thread.

Thanks

[jkvlondon]

From what I know of history there was never a jathedar only until 20th century and SGPC raj ....up until 1920s/30s SARBAT KHALSA was called and punj piarey would issue hukamnama to panth. I would agree to that only once we found the wolves in sheep's clothing and did their sodha as prescribed in Bhai Chaupa Singh rehitnama under the section describing what is to come .